The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-10-15
Maryland Affairs.

Four colored men have been selected as
jurymen in Anne Arundel county.
Flakes Of snow fell with the rain at Oak
land, Garrett county, last Tuesday.
George W. Ford died near North East,
Cecil county, last Saturday, in his 92d year.
The value of exports from Baltimore for the
year ended August 31st, was nearly S5l ,00O,-
600.
Robert Wier died in Cecil county last week.
He was born in April, 1871, and was conse
quently 96l yearsold.
The Western Union Company will take
charge Of the B. & 0. telegraph lines TO day,
all details being consummated.
The agricultural fairs of Anne Arundel,
Frederick and Hartford counties were held
this week. The Hagerstown fair will COM
mence next Tuesday.
Only 126 deaths were reported in Baltimore
last week against l49 during the correspond.
ing week Of last year, 157 in 1885 and 1874 in
1884. The births reported last week were 291.
Robert Garrett resigned the Presidency of
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the com.
pany passed the usual semi-annual dividend.
This latter caused the stock to fall to $l0I.
A few months ago the stock was Sl75.
The Howard Rifles, of Port Tobacco,
Charles county, Capt. L. A. Wilmer command
ing, will visit Richmond, Va, on the 9th in
slant, to participate in the laying of the Lee
monument corner stone. The Rifles expect
to carry sixty men.
Albert j. Brooks, brother of Walter B.
Brooks, the Republican nominee for COVER
nor, committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head with a revolver, in ST. Louis, Mis-
souri,, whittier he went from Maryland about
eight years ago. He was about 46 years of
age.
John Pedicord, the last but two of the
Old Defenders Association of Baltimore,
died on Tuesday at the Aged Mems Home,
Lexington and Calhoun streets. He was 81
years and 5 months old, and had been an
inmate of the Home nine years.
Mary E. WEIGH, aged 10 months, daughter
of Timothy WEIGH, of Baltimore, on Tuesday
afternoon fell out of a second-story window
and broke her neck. She was standing in u
chair, looking for her father to return home,
when she lost her balance and fell out the
window.
The woman who registered as Mrs. Irwin at
hotel in New Jersey, and ATTEMPTED to COM
init suicide on Sunday by taking large doses
of choral was as identified as Mrs. Emma
Lee Hudson, who has been accused of sever
al swindling attempts in New York. She is
said to be a native of Baltimore.
Robert RidgIey, colored, 70 years old, died
suddenly on Tuesday morning in St. Francis
Xavier's Church, Baltimore. He had ap.
preached the altar and was about to kneel
down to participate in the communion, and
had Just inclined his head upon the altar rail
when he fell over upon the floor.
The thirteenth annual convention of the
Womans Christian Temperance Union of
MARYLAND will be held in the hall of the
Young Mems Christian Association, Balti-
more, on October 9th and 18th. Quite an
extensive program has been arranged, and
interesting reports will be made upon all
that pertains to the particular work of the
Union.
The students of Mount ST. Mary's College,
Emmitsburg, celebrated the annual barbecue
on Wednesday with games and athletic sports.
The College Band headed the procession of
students to the campus. Chas. Ferguson,
Boston, Mass, won the first prize in the half
hour goas- you-please race; 5. j. Martin,
Pittsburg, the second.
Henry Willis, over so years of age, was re-
leased from the Maryland Penitentiary last
week, where he had served a term for larceny,
and taken to Washington, D, c., to answer
the charge of stealing horse and buggy. be
was discharged, and before leaving the city
stole another team. He was arrested in Bal
timore on Tuesday, and sent to Washington
again.
The Finance Committee of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company met on Tuesday
in Baltimore, and decided to declare divi
idend on the Washington Branch for the
past six months, but did not determine
whether it shall be three or four per cent
1t was reported that the earnings OF the main
stem for September exceeded those for Au-
gust by 100000.
DIR. r. Z. R. Miller, we'll known physi-
clan, residing near Lewistown, Frederick
county, was seriously injured at Frederick, on
Wednesday, by being struck in the centre OF
his breast by the pole or tongue of large
wagon which he did not see approaching.
The accident occurred at one of the fair ground
gates. 1t is thought that he will recover.
VIM. Redmiles, while at work Tuesday
afternoon in S. J. Adler's steam saw mill,
near Woodwardsville, in the fourth district
of Anne Arundel county, where he was en-
ployed as engineer, was instantly killed. In
attempting to p'It large log on the carriage
he missed his foothold and fell, the log crush
ing his head upon the skid over which the
log was being rolled.
The preliminary arrangements for the
great national singing festival, to be held IN
Baltimore next June and July, were started
on Wednesday night with boom that prom
ises success. A number of business men
met at the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association and gave substantial beginning
to the affair by putting their names down for
$4,000 of the proposed guarantee fund of
$4,000.
Rev. p G. Bowers, for number of years
pastor of the Lutheran charge, Jefferson,
Middletown Valley, who was attending the
Lutheran synod at Williamsport, Washington
oa,.., d;od onddan1v from heart disease
about eight o. clock Saturday night, while &C.
cupying a seat in the synod. He was about
sixty. eight years old, and was pastor of
small congregation which had been created
from the Jefferson charge.
The annual fall meeting of the Maryland
Jockey Club, beginning October Is at the
Pimlico course, promises to be the most in
teresting and prosperous meeting yet held,
Additional sest has been added to the sport
by the introduction of the Citizens stakes Of
$1,000, for which on the third daya handicap
sweepstakes for all ages will be run, one and
one half miles. The winner captures the
purse subscribed by the citizensi second horse
receives 500; third $500, and fourth 500 out
of the stakes. There are 40 nominations, and
the total stake, which isthe most valuable one
at Pimlico, is expected to be worth from
$1,000 to $1,000
In Washington township, near the Mary
land line, in Franklin county, Pa, lived for
about eighty-four years George Snowberger,
a bachelor, with his unmarried sister and
brother. He rarely left his farm, and was
never at the county seat. He managed to ac-
cumulate fortune which is estimated at S75,.
600. Far the past few years he has been of
uusound mind, and has required almost con-
slant watching. On Saturday morning he
told his sister as she was leaving home that
she would never see him again. At six
o'clock in the evening he disappeared, and
searching parties which were out all night
found his dead body in creek two hundred
yards from his residence Sunday morning.
On Monday afternoon last at Drum Point,
Calvert county, the first spadeful Of earth was
removed by Pres. August Albert for the Drum
Point Railroad. There were present Major
'Goldsborough, chief engineer, and his corps Of
engineers, under Capt. Green, and the Messrs,
De Barril, Alexander and John, who also
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